Joyce Tyldesley

Joyce Ann Tyldesley is a British archaeologist, academic, and freelance writer. She was Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Oriental Studies at Liverpool University and lecturer of Egyptology.

Tyldesely was born in Bolton, Lancashire. In 1981 she earned a first-class honours degree in archaeology from Liverpool University, and doctorate from Oxford in 1986. Actually, she is the tutor of the Certificate in Egyptology of the University of Manchester.

She is married with two children to Egyptologist [http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/snape.htm Steven Snape] and lives in Lancashire.

In January 2008, her then-most recent book, "Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt", was the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.

Bibliography

*"Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt"
*"Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh"
*"Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh"
*"Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen"
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*"Egypt's golden empire: the age of the New Kingdom"
*"The mummy: unwrap the ancient secrets of the mummies' tombs"
*"Pyramids: the real story behind Egypt's most ancient monuments"
*"Stories from Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Myths and Legends for Children"
*"Tales from Ancient Egypt"
*"The Private Lives of the Pharaohs"
*"Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt"
*"Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt"